Hertfordshire Maps

21x17 cm

ORIGINAL HAND COLOUR

HARTFORD SHIRE.
By R^t.Morden at the Atlas in Corn:hill. London.

Robert Morden (d.1703) is thought to have produced this series of maps in about 1693 for Edmund Gibson's translation of Camden's Britannia published in 1695 but rejected for being too small. Morden published them a few years later in 1701 in his New Description and state of England. The publication was issued twice more after his death by Ralph Smith and others in 1704. The maps were reworked (this state can be identified by the addition of a compass rose) and published in several works, most notably Cox's Magna Britannia, from 1708 until the end of the 18th century often with spurious dates on the title page.

Good impression in original hand colour from the second state with compass rose. Small left margin (5mm) has been extended with matching paper.

Ref. Hodson Printed Maps of Hertfordshire. 22(ii)